Position: Chief Executive Officer

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Mr. Marrocu is an experienced executive and entrepreneur in the travel industry. He has worked on various continents in developed and developing markets. His passion for travel leads GSTC in encouraging public and private sector partnerships necessary to build sustainable travel systems, strategies and policies for future growth and prosperity.  Mr. Marrocu brings a rich and diversified C-level background to the role, having held various leadership roles in the Travel & Transportation industry. He was President and Chief Operating Officer the Verona Valeria Catullo Aiport in Italy, Senior Vice President Head of Hub at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport and General Manager of Alitalia in South Africa and Southern Brazil. He was Chief Operating Officer of Chiari Sommariva SPA Tour Operator and Chief Executive Officer of ItaliaTour Tour Operator, both in Italy. Most recently, Mr. Marruco led an independent management consulting business in Brazil.

Position: Board Chair

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Dr. Bricker is an Associate Professor at the University of Utah in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism. She also works as a Senior Research Scientist – in Recreation with HDR. Dr. Bricker completed her Ph.D. research with the Pennsylvania State University, where she specialized in sustainable tourism and natural resource management. She has special research and teaching interest in ecotourism, sense of place, natural resource management, and the environmental and social impacts of tourism. Kelly has conducted research on heritage tourism, social impacts of tourism, and natural resource-related tourism environments. She has presented papers on issues in ecotourism, sense of place, natural resource management, and incentive travel programs. She has published articles on sense of place, ecotourism certification and policy, and health and sustainable tourism relative to communities. With her husband Nathan, she developed an ecotourism operation called Rivers Fiji. She serves as the Chair of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council and Chair of The International Ecotourism Society.

Position: Technical Director

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Amos is a population ecologist by academic training and administrator, and works in the field of the sustainability of tourism and standardization. He was the lead consultant in developing the “Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria”, author of the “Tourism Sustainability Scorecard” for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), member of the ISO Technical Committee on Tourism, author of the “Guide for Tourism: Instrument for Environmental and Social Management” (IUCN) for the environmental authorities of Central America and the Dominican Republic, and lead consultant for the study “Policy elements for the sustainability of cruise tourism in Central America” (IDB and INCAE). He also recently worked for the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) on sustainable tourism issues, where he coordinated the projects for establishing a Global Sustainable Tourism Partnership and the Sustainable Investment and Finance in Tourism (SIFT) initiative. He is a founding member of the GSTC and is the founder and CEO of Rara Avis Rainforest Lodge and Reserve, one of the first ecolodges and private reserves in Costa Rica. He has also worked as a university professor, and in business administration, environmental auditing, and construction. He was the founding president of the Costa Rican Private Nature Reserves Association, president of the Costa Rican Youth Hostel Association, treasurer of the Federation of Costa Rican Environmental Organizations, member of the National Biodiversity Commission, and a country representative to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development.

Position: Membership Coordinator

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Harmony is the membership coordinator of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council. She holds degrees in international studies and French from Dickinson College. Currently, she is pursuing a master's degree in tourism administration with a concentration in sustainable destination management at George Washington University. Originally from New Mexico, she is based in Washington, D.C. working for the Moroccan American Center, Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission. She volunteers with the U.S. International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) where she assisted the Secretariat in researching Haiti's cultural and natural assets after the 2010 earthquake. She also lived in Berlin, Germany where she worked for the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy.